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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
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Noah Vickers and Ross Lydall

Private sector will pay for HS2 Euston tunnel, Transport Secretary Mark Harper insists

Transport Secretary Mark Harper has dismissed fears that private developers will refuse to pay for 4.5 miles of HS2 tunnelling works into Euston station.

The Government was recently warned by Sir John Armitt, chair of the National Infrastructure Commission, that the private sector would not agree to pay for the tunnel connecting Euston with Old Oak Common in west London.

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